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genre:Modal Jazz
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Apr 20
Point of Departure
Andrew Hill · 1965 Spin it Again - Recorded nine months before Eric Dolphy died, with Tony Williams at nineteen doing things to a drum kit that still don't have a name.
genre:Modal Jazz
Apr 17
Cookin' at the Plugged Nickel
Miles Davis · 1966 Spin it Again - Tony Williams was nineteen years old on this bandstand, and he already sounds like he'd invented something nobody else knew was possible.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 17
Workin'
Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, so he cut four albums in a single afternoon — and every one of them holds up.
genre:Modal Jazz
Apr 5
Kulu Sé Mama
John Coltrane · 1965 Spin it Again - Coltrane in '65, past the point of needing your approval, just him and Pharoah Sanders letting something ancient and uncomfortable move through the room until it was done.
genre:Spiritual Jazz
Apr 5
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane · 1965 Spin it Again - Four movements, one theme, and Coltrane playing like a man who had already settled the argument with God and just wanted you to hear how it ended.
genre:Spiritual Jazz
Apr 5
Giant Steps
John Coltrane · 1960 Spin it Again - Coltrane changed the harmonic vocabulary of jazz with this record and then basically walked away from it, which is either the most confident or most restless thing a musician has ever done.
genre:Modal Jazz
Apr 5
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles Davis got five musicians in a room with almost no rehearsal and they all played like they were thinking out loud, which is harder than it sounds.
genre:Hard Bop
Mar 30
In a Silent Way
Miles Davis · 1969 Spin it Again - Miles Davis turned the volume down so low in 1969 that you had to lean in, and once you did, you couldn't hear anything else the same way again.
genre:Modal Jazz